James Webb Space Telescope Discovers an Alien Planetary System's Icy Edge

James Webb Space Telescope discovers an alien planetary system's icy edge

The presence of water-ice in the debris disk around a young star could have helped facilitate the growth and development of exoplanets.

Frozen ocean world discovered between Mars and Jupiter

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, Ceres appeared dry and rocky, its surface marked by craters and dents. For years, that view held strong. Most believed that Ceres was less than 30% ice and too solid to have held much water. That idea may now be outdated. Fresh findings suggest Ceres could be far more icy than scientists had guessed. New research points to a…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-awaited detection of ice outside our own solar system.

Subscribe to our WhatsApp channel and bring the information in the palm of your hand. NASA detects ice out of the solar system for the first time The James Webb space telescope made history by detecting for the first time crystalline water ice in a planetary system outside of ours. The finding occurred on the debris disk of the star HD 181327, 155 light years away. This discovery is key to understanding planetary formation and the transport of w…

NASA's Webb Telescope Discovers Frozen Disk

Discovery of Crystalline Water Ice Around a Sun-like Star: A Breakthrough in Astronomical Science In a remarkable development within the field of astronomy, a new illustration has been released that depicts a Sun-like star surrounded by a disk of dusty debris, which includes crystalline water ice. This significant discovery was confirmed on May 14, 2025, […]

Webb Finds Icy Disk

NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in systems around stars. By using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice — definitive evidence of what astr…